A Film That Made You Think

A film that genuinely stayed with me is “Parasite”, the South Korean film directed by Bong Joon-ho, which I watched about four years ago after it won the Oscar for Best Picture. I watched it at home with my brother, not knowing much about it, which I think made the experience even more powerful. On the surface, it’s about a poor family who, one by one, trick their way into working for a very wealthy family — first as a tutor, then as a driver and a housekeeper. For the first half, it feels almost like a comedy, and you find yourself cheering for the poor family. Then there’s a dramatic twist, and the film becomes much darker and more violent. What made me think so deeply was the way it portrays inequality. The rich family isn’t evil; they’re polite and even kind, but they simply don’t see the poor family as fully human — at one point, the father complains about the way the driver “smells”. The film made me reflect on how invisible the people who serve us can be: cleaners, delivery drivers, security guards. For days afterwards, I found myself noticing them more, and I still think about that film whenever I hear debates about social class.

Syujet (spoylersiz) → mavzu → sizga ta’siri (kundalik hayotdagi o‘zgarish).